不同的民族和国家存在着各具特色的饮食文化,它的丰富性和多样性也正是不同民族创造性的体现。中国与英美等西方国家对于“吃”的观点和态度、“吃”的内容及形式等方面都存在着显著的差异。然而,这些在历史的长河中绵延而产生的“吃”文化差异渐渐使得“吃”字在中英文翻译中变得妙趣横生。揭示这些差异以及内在的原因,有助于从理论和实践两个方面深化跨文化交际。 Different ethnic groups and countries have their own unique food culture. Its richness and diversity are also the creative manifestations of different ethnic groups. Western countries such as Britain, the United States and the United States have notable differences in the views and attitudes toward “eating” and the content and form of “eating”. However, these “eating” cultural differences that have been rolling in the long history of the world gradually make the words “eat” become very interesting in the translation of Chinese and English. Revealing these differences and the underlying causes help to deepen cross-cultural communication both in theory and in practice.